Industrial Automation Magazine India

DEP paves way for future of aerodynamic design through virtual validation

Published on : Tuesday 25-08-2020

Virtual validation plays a crucial role in ensuring safety and precision of aircraft design.

Bangalore, August 24, 2020: In an age where cutting-edge technology advances and optimises product design capabilities, the one consistent factor that remains priority is safety. Virtual validation, a concept that has increasingly shifted to the forefront of aerospace design, plays a crucial, upfront role in ensuring safety and precision during the early stages of aircraft design. The virtual validation process provides engineers and product designers a comprehensive 3D visualisation of a part or product in CAD and CAE. It establishes a simulated environment where engineers can run multiple tests to ensure validity and security of their products before physically building them.

Companies in the aerospace industry can utilise virtual validation to optimise their product development process. With the need to build prototypes for testing eliminated, engineers have the benefits of running endless tests to check safety measures, ensure strength and endurance and operate software through CAE, all while reducing production time and costs.

Detroit Engineered Products (DEP) offers a unique platform known as MeshWorks to assist in virtual validation and optimisation within the aerospace industry. MeshWorks provides an integrated CAE platform that enables users to utilise virtual validation while optimising workflows in the industry. There is a clear increase in the volume of simulation work nowadays, as the cost of doing design changes is minimal at the concept stage. MW with its morphing and parameterisation leadership, and early stage optimisation enables aerospace companies to do a lot of work in the early concept stages. Through its pre-processing tools and design optimisation possibilities, MW also companies complete several tasks across the concept, verification and validation, and detailed design stage. Even in the verification and validation stage, where almost all the geometric interiors and exteriors are all frozen, and the structural performances still need to be improved, MW can be very helpful.

Karthik Shankaran, Chief Innovation Officer, Detroit Engineered Products, said, “In the aerospace industry, priority of aircraft designers should be safety. We have made technological advancements; however, it is crucial to ensure safety and precision during the early stages of aircraft design. With the help of virtual validation, companies can test designs before investing in prototypes, and make sure the products are safe and reliable beforehand. This will ultimately help in saving human lives from catastrophic accidents.”

Detroit Engineered Products (DEP) is an Engineering Solutions and Product Development company. Since its inception in 1998 in Troy, Michigan, USA, DEP is now a global company with footprints in Europe, China, Korea, Japan and India.

At the soul of DEP is a passion for engineering, and this passion has led to the inception of DEP MeshWorks, our proprietary software platform. DEP MeshWorks is a CAE driven platform for rapid concept CAE and CAD model generation, parametrisation of CAE models, enabling optimisation, advanced meshing and CAD morphing. It has resulted in an accelerated and transformed product development process, which has resulted in several creative solutions to many of our client’s problems, thus providing significant value.